Alumni: Life After Pardee RAND

Since its inception in 1970, the Pardee RAND Graduate School has graduated more than 300 PhDs. Our alumni have gone on to a wide range of jobs in government, business, non-profit institutions, and academia.

Pardee RAND organizes alumni activities and encourages alumni to let us know of their achievements and whereabouts. This page provides a brief glimpse at some recent events and news.

Students participating in programs that provide a comprehensive range of support services are more likely to persist in attending community college, according to research by alum Lindsay Daugherty (cohort '05).

Joe Nation (cohort '85), a professor of the Practice of Public Policy at Stanford and director of the interactive website U.S. Pension Tracker, estimates total United States public pension debt in June 2015 at $5.599 trillion, a 16 percent increase over 2014.

Schools are uniquely situated to whip kids into shape, writes alum Kenneth Thorpe (cohort '80), chairman of the Partnership to Fight Chronic Disease. Children spend most days at school — and typically have at least one meal there. So teachers and administrators could provide students with the resources to stay healthy.

In Forbes, alum Jeremy Ghez (cohort '06) writes that Google, Apple, Facebook, and Amazon are each trying to impose the most long-lasting business model that will lock in consumers for an extended period of time. But they are not infallible.

Upcoming Event

Charles Wolf, Jr. passed away on October 24, 2016. He was 92. Over his 60 years at RAND, Wolf was a teacher, mentor, and friend to countless students, alumni, staff, and professors. He has left behind a tremendous legacy that will be celebrated in memorial services on December 16 and January 26.

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